Chapter 240: Give away money
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: GaeaTiamat
“Well, you guys shouldn’t be shocked, right?” Bai Li put his original face back on and performed an on-the-spot face turn for the three people who had just arrived at his house today.
Tang Ying silently wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth, ignored his frightened heart, and muttered, “I wouldn’t dare…”
He was still confused. How come he had not visited for half a month and Bai Li’s body had somehow dropped another layer of vest? Plus, it was the kind of thing that no one expected. What a surprise!
Wen XingYao also blamed him for not notifying him in advance and telling him that he was going to bring the two deans over. So he didn’t reciprocate, and didn’t tell him that Bai Li was the end result of Zhu MoLing’s heartfelt three year search.
The two seniors were amazed and looked at Bai Li carefully. They compared his current face with Zhu QingLing’s, who was only 15 years old a few years ago, to confirm that he was the same person, then said sincerely to Zhu MoLing, “Congratulations! You two brothers are now reunited!”
Since they lived on Buddha Jumps Over the Wall star, like many people, they knew that the Heavenly Fox clan had been frantically looking for their missing young master. Putting aside the fact that the Imperial Research Institute and the Heavenly Fox clan had a lot of business dealings, the two elderly people knew all about Zhu MoLing’s obsession with finding his brother.
Now that the brothers were reunited, they would only give their best wishes.
“Thank you.” Zhu MoLing curved the corners of his mouth, and poured a cup of hot tea for each of the two old men.
The subtle fragrance of tea came up from the coffee table, and made Du Jiayin and Fan Yunping’s eyes unconsciously shift to the two cups of tea. They picked up the tea and carefully took a sip. The taste of bitterness in their mouths made them like it so much that they couldn’t help but take a few more sips. While the two were quietly sipping their tea, Bai Li smiled, then looked at Tang Ying before quietly revealing his beastly features in front of him.
Snow-white furry pointed fox ears, sharp fox paws, and even the fox tail. He let them flicker behind him.
Not only was the name “Bai Li” fake, even his identity as an Ancient Blue Star person was fake. It was really incredible! Tang Ying’s extremely wide eyes and slightly dumbfounded expression pleased Bai Li, and gave him the joy of a successful prank. He laughed more and more happily.
However, he accidentally missed Wen XingYao’s sultry and eager gaze, and his natural focus on the sides of his body. At the sight of those nine large tails, he involuntarily clenched and unclenched his hands.
Soft! He wanted to touch them!
At the same time, Wen XingYao also had a little headache from Bai Li’s sudden change of personality. Since Bai Li had two appearances, he often switched between them freely, even in daily life, even in bed…Wen XingYao, who was often asked which Bai Li he liked more, wondered daily if he had received some kind of great scum script.
However, Bai Li’s “pranks” had a bottom line. Before the two old men finished their tea and discovered him standing not far behind them pulling a prank, he had reverted to his original state, and turned back into a docile and obedient child. When he thought about how the two of them were just drinking tea, he also ran to the kitchen to cut a large pile of fruit to put together an open fruit plate.
The fragrance of the fruit was the most intense that the two old men have smelled in their lives; watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes, oranges, dragon fruit…Each one looked juicy, brightly colored and very fresh.
If they could still calmly drink a few mouthfuls of the tea, for that big plate of fruit they didn’t dare start. This, this, this…this kind of quality! This kind of fragrance! It was worth a lot of money, right? No! It may be such a good thing that not even money could buy it! Then it was all cut to serve them. Wasn’t it a little too wasteful?
The good things that appeared one after another put the two old men at a loss. Then as an afterthought, they remembered that they had prepared a gift for Bai Li so they could come over to his house, and hurriedly took the present out of their space button.
“Bai Li, we didn’t know what you liked, so we picked something that young people like nowadays and brought it. This is the most advanced life assistant type robot available. If you usually have any chores, you can give them to it to do. You can also take this card. As long as the Imperial Research Institute has business with the store in the future, using this card can give you a 20% discount. For example, if you want to upgrade your virtual reality game builder, you would be able to use it!”
This was a silver and white card made of some kind of material, with gold patterns drawn in the Imperial Research Institute’s emblem. The pattern was complex and gorgeous, and looked very textured. When this card was close to Bai Li, the optical computer on Bai Li’s wrist automatically popped up with a prompt of whether the unfamiliar authority needed to be bound.
It seemed that the two old men had set up the owner of the card in advance before they came here. It was Bai Li’s turn to be at a loss. To upgrade the virtual reality game builder, each level of upgrade costs were not low. 100,000, five million…even after 25 million, 100 million or even 10 billion, with that discount, a lot of money could be saved…
These two old people hadn’t sent a thin card, but a large amount of money, ah! Bai Li hurriedly waved his hand, refused to accept the card, and also spoke his thoughts, as he said straight out that he couldn’t take advantage of them so much.
“Oh, oh, oh. I remember that our Bai Li has already upgraded the builder to A-class, and just has one last S-class,” Old Du said with a smile as he pushed the card back. His tone carried a bit of pride, “You just take it. But don’t say you didn’t make any contribution. You made a game that has a 90% Spiritual Pacification Estimate. It is the biggest contribution to the Empire. This should only be part of the reward. We were in such a hurry…”
What Du Jiayin did not tell Bai Li was that the Institute had several rounds of discussion about how to reward him as a person, but there had been no concrete conclusion. Some of them suggested that they should wait patiently for a while longer to see how much more Bai Li and his game could surprise them. If they could really reach a cure for Genetic Collapse Disorder, he would become a hero of the whole Empire.
In fact, for Bai Li now, the money he had in his hands had become a series of mere numbers. With 25 million players in Carefree Farmstead, it had become a gold-sucking beast. Sometimes he didn’t know where to spend the money…
Originally he intended to buy an agricultural planet to farm when the money was plentiful, but as a result of recovering his memory and finding his brother, he knew that he already had an agricultural planet in his name, Hope Star.
The food had to be eaten one bite at a time, and the land had to be planted one planet at a time. Before he planted Hope Star, he shouldn’t buy a new agricultural planet. In essence, Bai Li was still a very “frugal” person.
As for the furry people living on Hope Star, their living space only took up a small part of it, and there was still a large area of land for planting.
Bai Li’s idea was that when he went to Hope Star, he could set aside a piece of land to experiment with artificial cultivation. It would be nice if the fuzzies would not only stay out of his way, but also help out in any way they could.
With that in mind, Bai Li took a brief break and glanced at Wen XingYao. He thought about how well Supreme could help with this issue…
Wen XingYao, who had been innocently standing nearby, suddenly felt an inexplicable chill. He made a surreptitious observation of his surroundings, and finally assumed that it was only illusions.
For the two deans and Bai Li’s first meeting, the exchange of atmosphere was very warm. How could he have the feeling that someone was plotting against him?
At Old Du’s repeated requests, Bai Li finally accepted the meaningful card. Compared to the “2 billion star coins for nothing,” the life assistant robot wasn’t worth mentioning. Bai Li thought that he could reveal some more of his abilities so that the two old people could be more at ease.
After he accepted the gifts, Bai Li tried his best to encourage the two old people to eat the fruit plate he cut by hand. He watched with a smile as the two ate a large portion of the fruit plate before they finally stopped, and thought that the amount was just right. They could still have some with lunch later after eating and digesting.
The rest of the fruit plate that wasn’t eaten got finished off by Tang Ying alone. The three of them had arrived at the right time, just around 10:00. After they exchanged pleasantries, Wen XingYao got up first and said he should go prepare lunch. To make lunch, naturally, one needed ingredients, so the lush vegetables in the yard came into the view of the two old men.
They almost jogged all the way to the yard, looked here and there, and wanted to touch the fresh, live vegetables, but were still a little afraid to do so.
Wen XingYao picked a cabbage, a few cucumbers, a few tomatoes, and a small handful of green onions. He was given several blank stares by the two, almost as if they were asking him to take it easy. Bai Li smiled and gave Wen XingYao a look to let him know to go back first, then he stayed with his brother and Tang Ying as he showed the two old men the small yard that he had managed to clean up during that time.
Or maybe it would be more apt to call it his vegetable garden.
Du Jiayin and Fan Yunping were like children being led by their parents through a botanical garden, as they walked around, looked around, and asked a lot of questions out of curiosity.
At the end of the walk, they asked one last question. “Bai Li, is growing vegetables a hobby of yours? You also know that our Empire has special agricultural planets. The people of the Empire have always disliked planting. We only have ornamental plants at home, and nothing with soil. Your vegetables, and those from an agricultural planet, isn’t there no difference?”
Bai Li smiled mysteriously at that question and said, “We’re going to have dinner soon, and you’ll know when you taste the food made from them.”
It looked like he had confidence in the vegetables he grew, so the two of them couldn’t help but look forward to it. Indeed, when they got to the table, they were amazed at the dishes made from those ingredients, and felt that the rice they ate at the big restaurants decades ago at great expense didn’t smell good anymore.
Du Jiayin used his chopsticks to try some pickled cabbage. He put it into his mouth and slowly chewed. The crispness of the cabbage was rich but not pungent, and acidity filled his entire mouth. He felt like he had returned to his gaming pod, and was watching the Carefree Farmstead live broadcast, and the theme of the live broadcast was naturally culinary delicacies.
“This cabbage…” Du Jiayin swallowed the food in his mouth and said with some disbelief, “How can it have the same texture and taste as the vegetables in the game? We cannot be in reality, the vegetables in reality have no taste at all, ah!”
It might be a bit embarrassing to say that in the entire Empire, there were currently two major problems for which no one had yet found the right solution, nor had they found exactly how they were created.
One was the Genetic Collapse Disorder that plagued all of the Interstellar’s Therians. The second was that Interstellar People were puzzled by the “food taste degradation mystery.” This was for all food, including seasonings, vegetables, fruits, and even meat. The taste wasn’t very good for anything that could be eaten. Both of these problems arose suddenly. At first they didn’t concern people, but in the long years since, they broke through people’s bottom line again and again until they finally became the two most unbreakable boulders that imprisoned the Empire on its way forward.
Bai Li was quite innocent about that issue. “But…they have taste!”
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